Obviously opened a can of worms there :D It was only my thoughts, while i understand what people are saying about the SID chip being connected in lots of ways, but if 10 people made the same bit of hardware then they would probably interface it differently. I guess I just wouldnt like people like Colin stop making hardware as it got emulated and then people didnt purchase the actual hardware. Then myself for one much prefer to use the real hardware so it wouldnt stop me anyway.
Always interested to see other peoples views on these things :D -----Original Message----- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of sam.co...@centrum.cz Sent: 27 February 2010 01:15 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: New SAM emulator for Windows >If its emulating the SID then id be worried about copyright. The SID >interface is a current piece of hardware I am the owner of the original SID interface (bought directly from Mr Piggot) and have not been interested in developments of the X128, even have not been in touch with the author yet. From a legal point of view, that seems to be a nonsence. Has anyone the copyright for booking the ports? Sam-users were not the first who have connected the SID to the ZX Spectrum (compatible) machines, I remember some developments in east Europe. However, as I know, Mr Piggot and Mr Owen were the first with a full software support (and the most valuable real C64 processor emulation besides). Thinking in the terms of the above mentioned copyright philosophy, sam users, I think, were the very first with an IDE interface and should have been entitled to the rights for many Speccy devices and emulators. :-) I will ask the developer to follow this forum. Hopefully the new X128 will bring some old good Speccy interfaces connected to our real SAMs into the virtual live. Eventually we could use even snapshots - after many years of waiting... J.
